Columbus
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英語
[编辑]詞源
[编辑]借自拉丁語 columbus (“鴿子”)。Colombo 的同源對似詞。動詞指的是這位意大利探險家的行為。
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[编辑]專有名詞
[编辑]Columbus
- 哥倫布, 源自拉丁語的男性人名。
- 姓氏。
- Christopher Columbus (1451?–1506),歐洲中世紀至近代的著名航海家、探險家與殖民者
- 多個美國地名。
同義詞
[编辑]- (俄亥俄州首府): Col's
衍生詞
[编辑]名詞
[编辑]Columbus (複數 Columbuses)
動詞
[编辑]Columbus (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 Columbuses,現在分詞 Columbusing,一般過去時及過去分詞 Columbused)
- (可能過時,俚語) 探索
- 1893,American Boys Afloat: Or, Cruising in the Orient,頁 150:
- "But, boy the powers of mud, I belayve you fellers mane to make an indepindint cruise in the Orient, and go Columbusing all over the ocean boy the way ye's talk!"
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- 1908,Out West,卷 28,頁 90:
- Callous as the old mummy was about anything and everything save his pet hobby, archaeology, he would sit up and take notice of such a vision ; and Peter felt that, having Columbused the discovery, he had the better right to it.
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- 1908,Sunset,卷 20,頁 271:
- To the west of the river lay the country in which I went Columbusing — the enchanted desert whose southern boundary was where the sky reached down and merged with the earth curve, and whose northern limit was the Harqua Hala range […]
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- 1921,Forest Leaves,卷 15,頁 lxx:
- No street car line passes it, so you'll have to do a little Columbusing on your own account-to find it-—but it's worth discovering, and President Gardner's phophecy sounds conservative.
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- (貶義,俚語,美國) 聲稱擁有某物(通常是被認為屬於他人的發現)
- 2014,Justin Simien,Dear White People,Simon and Schuster, →ISBN,頁 97:
- When his black friend tells him that many people knew about the bar before he did, his white friend retorts by saying that he “Columbused it”; i.e., discovered it for white people before a gaggle of hip white people flooded in.
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[编辑]Columbus